Further on he presents a method to confirm a share common ancestor by
comparing results from using the Poisson distribution of member's halpotype and
a linear mutation method. They should come up with approximately the same
number of generation.

Has this approach been applied for the populous surname projects -
MacLoughlin, O'Docherty etc. ?

Anotole did present a method to confirm whether a cluster shared a genuine
common ancestor but no - it hasn't been tried by one anyone on any results
from the M222 project. One of us has to learn how to do it first.